Author: Krin Garza

Based on many months of polls, youth voter participation is expected to reach historic levels on Tuesday’s election. Enthusiasm in this age group does seem different this cycle. We’re hopeful and anxiously excited by the prospect of historic youth voter turnout and what that might mean for the expression and renewal of democratic institutions. Our…Read More

When people occupy a position of privilege, they often fail to recognize a lack of representation in popular media. Television, film, and even phone emojis inadequately portray millions of individuals. When Rayouf Alhumedhi saw that there were no emojis that looked like her, she wanted to do something about it. In the fall of 2017, millions of women around…Read More

Shibby de Guzman, 15, does not agree with the president of her country. In fact, many people disagree with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, whose brutal war on drugs has left thousands dead in the island nation of the Philippines. In 2017, he told E.U. politicians to “go to hell” for raising human-rights concerns, later branding Oxford University as a…Read More

February 2018 was a horrible, tragic, crushing, somber, and enraging month for the Parkland, Florida community that lost 17 members—students and teachers—in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. Undoubtedly, we missed a few emotions for those who must endure the tremendous heartache that comes with losing a loved one—or being reminded of a loved…Read More

The G200 Youth Forum is an international not-for-profit organization, completely independent of any governmental influence and striving to establish global solutions to economic, ecological, a societal issues that are plaguing our world today and will pose major risks well into the future – the kinds of issues that our young people are best suited to…Read More

FORSYTH NEWS Plenty of young kids dream about unicorns and what it would be like to zoom around on a winged horse with a horn in the middle of their heads, but that isn’t quite the idea of a unicorn that James Ruffin has. Just 20 years old, James has been dreaming about obtaining…Read More

The Young Economic Summit (YES!) encourages groups of students and teachers to apply to compete against 14 other organizations and groups to create economically viable solution that aren’t just “profitable” but also have a far-reaching impact beyond their local community as far as finance is concerned. Teams have almost an entire year to come…Read More

Recognizing that the young people of today have unique challenges – and even more unique opportunities – the maybe any other time in human history, the Making Cents International Youth Economic Opportunities Network was established in 2010 to provide help, answers, and support to young people looking to make economic changes in their local community…Read More

Established in 1995 by UNICEF as a challenge to young people around the world, a call to action to generate the kind of global change they wanted to see by starting in their local communities, Voices of Youth has become one of the most influential communities of young people all over the world driving change…Read More

MAINLINE MEDIA NEWS With CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg dominating the world these days, people are very familiar with the “young entrepreneur” – but when people talk about teenage CEOs of companies these days nobody anticipates that they’ll be talking about a 13-year-old! Anna Welsh, however, is turning the business world on its head in…Read More